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Little Girl Blue (song)






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"Little Girl Blue"
Song
Published1935
Composer(s)Richard Rodgers
Lyricist(s)Lorenz Hart

"Little Girl Blue" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935.[1] The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway musical Jumbo.[2]

Film appearances[edit]

Recordings[edit]

Many popular and jazz artists have recorded the tune, including:

  • Chet Baker
  • Polly Bergen - Little Girl Blue (1955)
  • Donald Byrd - Byrd in Flight, as "Little Boy Blue": (Blue Note 1960)[3]
  • Ann Hampton Callaway - To Ella with Love (1996)[4]
  • British-born singer Dorothy Carless - Mixed Emotions (1956).[5]
  • Sam Cooke - My Kind of Blues (1961)[6]
  • Doris Day - Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)[7]
  • Ethel Ennis - Eyes for You (1964)[8]
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)[9]
  • Judy Garland - Alone (1957)[10]
  • Red Garland - A Garland of Red (Prestige 1956)[11]
  • The Four Freshmen - Love Lost (1959)[12]
  • Johnny Hartman - And I Thought About You (1959)[13]
  • The Hi-Lo's
  • Milt Jackson - Reverence and Compassion (1993)
  • Harry James
  • Joni James - Little Girl Blue (1956)[14]
  • Keith Jarrett - Standards in Norway
  • Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969, although the lyrics on this version were rearranged)
  • Morgana King
  • Diana Krall - From This Moment On (2006)[15]
  • Stacey Kent - Dreamsville (2001)[16]
  • Brenda Lee - Reflections in Blue (1964)[17]
  • Grant Green - Oleo with Sonny Clark
  • Eddie Harris - Exodus to Jazz
  • John Lewis - The John Lewis Piano (1957)[18]
  • Hank Mobley - Mobley's Message (Prestige 1956)[19]
  • Gerry Mulligan with Jon Eardley - California Concerts (1954)[20]
  • Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)[21]
  • Oscar Peterson - My Favorite Instrument (solo piano)[22]
  • The Postal Service (a remix of the Nina Simone version)
  • Sue Raney - Sue Raney, Volume II (2004)
  • Linda Ronstadt - For Sentimental Reasons (1986)[23]
  • Diana Ross - Touch Me in the Morning (1973),[24] and Blue (recorded in 1973, unreleased until 2006)[25]
  • Mathilde Santing
  • The Carpenters - Lovelines (1989)[26]
  • Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein (1990)[27]
  • Carly Simon - My Romance (1990)[28]
  • Nina Simone (whose 1958 debut album Little Girl Blue was named after the song)[29]
  • Frank Sinatra - Songs for Young Lovers (1954)[30]
  • Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)[31]
  • Margaret Whiting - this charted briefly in 1947[32]
  • Nancy Wilson - Hello Young Lovers (1962)[33]
  • Pinky Winters - Pinky (1954)
  • Louis Armstrong - Pops Is Tops-The Verve Studio Albums (2018)[34]
  • Laura Mvula - Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (2013)

    • References[edit]

    1. ^ Jacobs, Dick & Harriet Jacobs – ‘’Who Wrote That Song?’’ published by Writer’s Digest Books, 1993,
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